The Importance of Energy Reporters

A Q&A with the NYT’s Matthew Wald about Japan’s nuclear crisis

By Cristine Russell   Apr 8, 2011 at 11:02 AM

The crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan has underscored the importance of specialized energy reporters. Unfortunately,... More

Building Haiti’s Post-Quake Media

Postcard from Port au Prince

By William Wheeler   Aug 11, 2011 at 03:08 PM

While I was reporting in Haiti last year, over the course of a few months, the Port-au-Prince guesthouse where I... More

California Watch is Watching

Investigation reveals lax oversight of seismic standards in schools

By Curtis Brainard   Apr 15, 2011 at 10:30 AM

California Watch’s Corey Johnson was scanning the website of the state architect’s office one evening in December 2009 when he... More

Crisis Juggling in Japan

Reporters struggle to balance quake, tsunami, nuclear coverage

By Curtis Brainard   Mar 16, 2011 at 02:00 PM

The triple disaster. The triple whammy. Both terms are now common in media accounts of the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear-plant disaster that has... More

False Tidals

Not-quite words for natural disasters

By Merrill Perlman   Mar 14, 2011 at 04:53 PM

Disasters bring out the best in journalism and journalists, and the cataclysmic events in Japan are no different. But in... More

Japan’s Quake and Political Fallout

Notes on nuclear renaissance

By Joel Meares   Mar 16, 2011 at 01:01 PM

The ongoing struggle to bring four reactors at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station under control has understandably shaken the... More

Misinformation Clouds Much Japan Coverage

International media’s output enters the “Journalistic Hall of Shame”

By Craig Silverman   Mar 25, 2011 at 11:59 AM

Andrew Woolner’s Yokohama residence was left without power shortly after the recent major earthquake struck Japan. But his laptop and... More

Pessimism Reigns a Year After Fukushima

Media forecast a gloomy future for the nuclear industry

By Cristine Russell   Mar 12, 2012 at 05:00 PM

The barrage of stories worldwide on the first anniversary of the disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant provided... More

Political Aftershocks

Reactions to a disaster abroad, at home

By Joel Meares   Mar 15, 2011 at 11:56 AM

The news cycle being what it is, it’s not surprising that we’ve taken to navel-gazing just days after the Japanese... More

Quaking in California

Articles about the “big one” short on science

By Curtis Brainard   Mar 22, 2011 at 02:15 PM

The 9.0 earthquake that struck Japan on March 11 not only sent a tsunami barreling across the Pacific, but also... More

The Climate Context in Japan

Crisis tests media’s ability to frame nuclear debate in a world beset by energy risks

By James Fahn   Apr 5, 2011 at 02:56 PM

When I was a young journalist working as the environment editor for a Thai newspaper back in the 1990s, one... More

Two Years Later, Haitian Earthquake Death Toll in Dispute

Journalists can do a better job reporting controversial numbers in disaster zones

By Maura R. O'Connor   Jan 12, 2012 at 01:04 PM

Fifteen miles north of the National Palace in Port au Prince, along Haiti’s azure coastline, is a place called Titanyen.... More

WikiLeaks Cables Used to Dig on Japan Quake

By Joel Meares   Mar 16, 2011 at 04:32 PM

An interesting development on the media front of the Japan quake-tsunami-nuclear disaster: some British newspapers are using WikiLeaks’s U.S.... More